Re: Writing modules for 2.5

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 09:24:53 EST


On Maw, 2003-04-15 at 13:39, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> My situation is like this: I am converting a char device driver to
> work with linux 2.5. In the open and close functions there are
> MOD_INC/DEC_USECOUNT calls. The question is what they should be
> replaced with. Will it be handled correctly without them?

Remove the MOD_INC/DEC counts in the open/close path and add
owner: THIS_MODULE in the file ops, and all is happy.

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